Vardey Recruitment recently met up with Rowena Hawkes – Business Development Manager with the ICAEW to discuss the ACA Qualification. I’m delighted to share the below blog written by Rowena to help eradicate some of the myths surrounding the qualification. Often employers recommend either ACCA or CIMA and the ACA is often thought only suitable for practice? OR IS IT?!! Is the ACA suited to all sectors or is it just practice? When it comes to deciding which...
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The Only Way is Up - with Bo Timms - Group Financial Controller with the Quadrant Group. Bo trained in ACCA whilst working in financial accounting at Barclays in Poole. In 2008, Bo qualified in ACCA and moved to Fitness First in 2009, joining the Group Finance Team where she worked as a Reporting Accountant. At Fitness First, Bo worked in various roles to include Statutory Reporting Accountant as well as heading up the Group Reporting team. In 2018, Bo moved to her first Financial...
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What are competency based interviews? You have secured your dream job interview hurray! The recruiter briefs you that the interview will be a competency-based interview. Goodness me!!! Do you go green with worry? Worry not!!! Vardey Recruitment have prepared a few pointers on competency-based interviewing and how to combat those nerves, by preparing for the process. Firstly, what does competency-based interviewing mean? It can also be known as “structured, behavioural or...
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